I burned an hour ranting over there. Naturally on the post, I got a javascript error. I miss netnews.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Rick Jones <rick.jon...@hp.com> wrote: >> On 06/24/2014 12:45 PM, Dave Taht wrote: >>> >>> In an age where you have, say, gbit fiber to your business, it makes quite >>> a lot of sense from a security and maintenence perspective >>> to be hosting your own data and servers on your own darn premise, not >>> elsewhere. >> >> >> Perhaps, but where does having gigabit fibre to a business imply the >> business has the space, power, and cooling to host all the servers it might >> need/wish to have? > > I didn't say there aren't compelling reasons also to co-locate in a data > center, > but for many uses today, being able to host a basic website, some service, > email, etc at your own location, is perfectly doable, and possibly > preferable to co-locating places where things like this are happening: > > http://fish2.com/ipmi/ > > or this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A > >> >> >>> I am glad gfiber exists to put a scare into certain monopolists, but >>> even then I'd be tons happier if municipalities treated basic wired >>> connectivity as we do roads. One of the great "Secrets" of silicon >>> valley is it got wired for fiber early, through the vision and >>> foresight of people like Brian Reid and everybody got easy access. >> >> >> That must be a really well-kept secret as I am aware of no fibre running to >> my house in Sunnyvale :) > > The fiber loop around palo alto has quite the inspiring story behind > it. Maybe brian will > write it down one day, or already has. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist) > > >> rick jones >> speaking for myself alone > > > > -- > Dave Täht > > NSFW: > https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article -- Dave Täht NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat